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Former Minneapolis officer Tou Thao’s blunt defense of Derek Chauvin — that Chauvin “absolutely” should not be in jail — is the kind of contrarian truth-telling the corporate media tries to bury. Thao, appearing in recent interviews and discussions about the Floyd case, argued that critical pieces of the story were suppressed and that the official narrative was rushed to fit a political script.
Thao has not been shy about naming names: he accused key figures in the prosecution and even some department officials of shaping a verdict before all facts were aired, and he pointed to discrepancies in witness testimony that never got sustained attention. Those claims — about withheld bodycam footage, disputed training testimony, and possible judicial bias — deserve a full accounting, not the reflexive condemnation they received from the left-leaning commentariat.
Let’s not forget that Thao himself paid a steep price, serving time in prison before being released in late 2025, and that experience fuels his insistence that the process was unfair. Whether you like Thao or not, his willingness to speak while the establishment covers for its own is the kind of accountability conservatives should champion rather than silence.
The larger legal picture is not trivial: Derek Chauvin was convicted and is serving lengthy sentences in both state and federal systems, outcomes that shocked the nation and reshaped policing debates. Those convictions and the heavy penalties — including multiyear state and federal sentences — make calls for reexamination politically explosive, but they also make it essential that every question about procedure and fairness be answered openly.
Conservatives should be crystal clear: defending the rule of law means defending fair trials for everyone, even unpopular defendants, and demanding transparency when powerful institutions rush to judgment. The same outlets that cheered the headlines then turned away when inconvenient facts surfaced — it’s a double standard that corrodes trust in our justice system and makes ordinary Americans cynical about law enforcement and courts.
If this country still believes in due process, patriotic Americans must insist on a sober review of the Floyd prosecutions’ most contested elements and an honest accounting from prosecutors, judges, and the press. We owe that to the memory of the accused and to the millions of citizens who believe justice must be blind, not partisan theater; silence and surrender to a one-sided narrative is not the conservative way.
